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Monday, April 19, 2010

Help me help Bride to be get out of the UK

A few moments after posting an image of the Eyjafjallajoekul no fly zone I received an email from a friend in the UK. In short she is desparate for a way out of London. Due to fly out of London on Wednesday for her wedding in Sydney, Lara is at her wits end trying to find a way through the ash and into the clouds. How (dear readers) should she get from London to Sydney if the planes wont fly? What advice can you give a stranded traveller desperate to fly over 17,000km in time for her weddding on May 1?

So far we have the following bits of advice:

ferry/train/drive to Rome or Madrid;

a couchette train service from Paris or ferry stops in france/belgium to either Mardrid or Rome;

a ferry to Scandanavia and then Finair;

if there is any chance she can get out of Paris try Air Austral. They fly Paris to Sydney via Reunion Island.

6 comments:

Sure you have many options a few pop to mind. I'd be betting most of those desperate to get out this way will be going to Rome where there's flight options FCO - Ataturk (IST)Turkey - BKK - SYD leaving Friday PM arriving Sunday on Turkish Airlines for $1500

Or Emirates FCO DXB BKK SYD $3500

or Depending on how confident she is driving and it's a nice drive that way. If she can get overland to Lisbon say by Train to Paris then one way car to LIS via Biaritz - San Sebastion then down through Salamanca she could fly. LIS - DKR (Dakar) on TAP Dakar - JNB on South Africanthen JNB - SYD On QF or South African for $4000 odd seeing availability 23/24/25 out of Lisbon.

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